David Souter Quotes

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

We go into nature to transform.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

Nature recharges me.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.